The swift sun: the impressionism

 The group of Impressionist painters is born during sixteen in Paris from a society of independent artist, after the refuses to exhibitions, above all because they weren’t near the canonic academic painting, we are in Belle Époque, when the form was all, and the form in painting of Impressionist was very scant respected, why? May because they has refused the form? No certainly! Because they wanted revolutionize the style? No certainly; the importance and formal sacrilege of impressionism is determined from a technical date, elementary and daily to every work, what is? The time; the name Impressionist if from an art critic Louis Leroy(1812-1885), regard a painting of Claude Monet(1840-1926), Impression soleil levant(Fig.1), in years 1872. Louis Leroy despised the painting because it seemed incomplete; we can refuse this judge but we must consider that he has expressed the motive of success of Impressionism; the time has been fundamental to this style, because the light, the sun, the effects of radiant light was momentanei, hence was necessary that the painter was swift to take the moment, the light of that moment, because some minute or time after the effect disappeared, and the painter have to wait the follow day, in fact the same Monet when have to not took the light, in studio, when the model isn’t the sun and light, but human he was much academic(Figs.2-3), the light is but isn’t the principal argument of the impression, because now are important the human and the campaign or land, as the Impressionist paintings but now Monet could work these paintings in studio, without stalk the sun or light; for this characteristic of light and not defined Leroy expressed this judge: “The open air, the diffused light, the true sun assume today in the painting an importance that it never has had, and that, frankly, don’t deserve”; the comments are going to be .”Today this judge would be despised or refused absolutely”, this comment is perfect, but with notation of time, this is today, because then it was normal judge to painting that were distant and different from academic painting; reflects on water(Fig.4) were momentanei, because the sun and the light changed after some minute, thereupon was necessary that painter took immediately the effects; evidently from a technical date is born a style, that was refused but then because today is very much appreciated. Every century has its style and its preference.

Alessandro Lusana

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